Festival’s industry strand crowns work-in-progress winners from Macedonia and Ukraine.
The Grand Prix of FilmFestival Cottbus (8-13 November) went to Russia for the fourth time in the last six years, with filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky taking the top award for his second feature Zoology after also winning top honours for his debut Corrections Class in 2014.
The other previous winners from Russia had been Angelina Nikonova in 2011 with Twilight Portrait and Alexander Veledinsky in 2013 with The Geographer Who Drank His Globe Away.
Moreover, Tverdovsky is the third film-maker to win Cottbus’s top prize twice in the festival’s 26-year history following Slovakia’s Martin Sulik (1993: Everything I Like and 1995: The Garden) and Serbia’s Oleg Novkovic (2006: Tomorrow Morning and 2010: White White World).
The international jury, which included veteran Israeli producer Marek Rosenbaum and Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanovic, described Zoology as ¨an original and emotional story about loneliness, love, hope and...
The Grand Prix of FilmFestival Cottbus (8-13 November) went to Russia for the fourth time in the last six years, with filmmaker Ivan I. Tverdovsky taking the top award for his second feature Zoology after also winning top honours for his debut Corrections Class in 2014.
The other previous winners from Russia had been Angelina Nikonova in 2011 with Twilight Portrait and Alexander Veledinsky in 2013 with The Geographer Who Drank His Globe Away.
Moreover, Tverdovsky is the third film-maker to win Cottbus’s top prize twice in the festival’s 26-year history following Slovakia’s Martin Sulik (1993: Everything I Like and 1995: The Garden) and Serbia’s Oleg Novkovic (2006: Tomorrow Morning and 2010: White White World).
The international jury, which included veteran Israeli producer Marek Rosenbaum and Serbian actress-director Mirjana Karanovic, described Zoology as ¨an original and emotional story about loneliness, love, hope and...
- 11/14/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Berlinale title Humidity scores hat-trick at national awards during Belgrade Fest; Diary Of A Teenage Girl wins in international strand.
Serbia, the last of the former Yugoslav countries eligible to join the Media programme, officially launched its Media Desk on Friday [March 4].
“Membership in the Media sub-programme of Creative Europe is of crucial importance for Serbian cinema,” Boban Jevtic - appointed as director of Film Centre Serbia last summer - told Screen.
“Our film-makers, production companies and other film professionals will now have access to its 17 different categories of support, and we will immediately start training sessions in order to get them acquainted with the programme and process of project submission and grants.”
The first such session was held the next day, as part of Fest Forward, the fledgling industry section of the 44th Belgrade International Film Festival (Feb 26 - Mar 6).
The festival included the official national competition. Serbia hasn’t had national awards since 2007, and last year...
Serbia, the last of the former Yugoslav countries eligible to join the Media programme, officially launched its Media Desk on Friday [March 4].
“Membership in the Media sub-programme of Creative Europe is of crucial importance for Serbian cinema,” Boban Jevtic - appointed as director of Film Centre Serbia last summer - told Screen.
“Our film-makers, production companies and other film professionals will now have access to its 17 different categories of support, and we will immediately start training sessions in order to get them acquainted with the programme and process of project submission and grants.”
The first such session was held the next day, as part of Fest Forward, the fledgling industry section of the 44th Belgrade International Film Festival (Feb 26 - Mar 6).
The festival included the official national competition. Serbia hasn’t had national awards since 2007, and last year...
- 3/7/2016
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
Film-makers across Europe are “in shock” after learning the news that the Nipkow Programm has not received backing from the EU’s Creative Europe programme for 2015-2016.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Nipkow Programm managing director Petra Weisenburger explained that the Berlin-based training initiative had not been successful in the latest round of funding for the next two years and would explore alternative strategies for a survival plan.
In the current financial year, Creative Europe had provided nearly 46% (€180,400) of Nipkow’s overall budget, with the remaining €215,543 coming from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Mbb) and Germany’s State Minister for Culture and the Media (Bkm).
Weisenburger said that Mbb’s CEO Kirsten Niehuus had already indicated a desire to see the Nipkow Programm continue to exist, but the situation remains unclear about the funding from Bkm for 2015 onwards.
She added that the Nipkow Programm jury of experts will meet during the next Berlinale in February to discuss the initiative’s future...
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily, Nipkow Programm managing director Petra Weisenburger explained that the Berlin-based training initiative had not been successful in the latest round of funding for the next two years and would explore alternative strategies for a survival plan.
In the current financial year, Creative Europe had provided nearly 46% (€180,400) of Nipkow’s overall budget, with the remaining €215,543 coming from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Mbb) and Germany’s State Minister for Culture and the Media (Bkm).
Weisenburger said that Mbb’s CEO Kirsten Niehuus had already indicated a desire to see the Nipkow Programm continue to exist, but the situation remains unclear about the funding from Bkm for 2015 onwards.
She added that the Nipkow Programm jury of experts will meet during the next Berlinale in February to discuss the initiative’s future...
- 11/12/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Russia big winner at FilmFestival Cottbus for second consecutive year.
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
Russia was the big winner for the second year in a row at the FilmFestival Cottbus with Ivan I. Tverdovsky’s Corrections Class picking up four awards at the weekend.
The feature debut received the International Jury’s main prize ¨for its unsentimental and unpretentious presentation of a powerful social theme presented through the prism of an excellent ensemble performance¨, thereby qualifying for the Connecting Cottbus Special Pitch Award, which will allow Tverdovsky and his producers to pitch a new project at the East-West co-production market in a year’s time.
Tverdovsky’s Russian-German co-production, which won the Best Debut prize at Kinotavr in Sochi and the East of the West Award in Karlovy Vary, also picked up the prizes from the Fipresci and Interfilm juries in Cottbus.
Last year, the main prize at Cottbus went to Russian director Alexander Veledinsky’s The Geographer Drank His Globe...
- 11/10/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
- 8/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Philipp Bräuer also announces decision to leave Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival.
Bernd Buder is to step down from the post of artistic director of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus in Germany, after his fourth edition this November.
Buder had headed the market as successor to Gabriele Brunnenmeyer since 2011. He will focus in future on his activities at the parallel FilmFestival Cottbus where he has served as head of the programme department since last year.
Buder has worked at the festival in Cottbus in various functions since 1996, most recently as a researcher and curator of the Focus sidebar.
The co-production event is now looking for a successor who would theoretically work in tandem with Buder on the 2014 edition (November 6-7) before taking over full responsibility from 2015, as he told Screen Daily at this week’s Odessa International Film.
In Odessa, he was serving on the jury along with Russian producer Evgeny Gindilis and Warsaw Film Fest...
Bernd Buder is to step down from the post of artistic director of the East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus in Germany, after his fourth edition this November.
Buder had headed the market as successor to Gabriele Brunnenmeyer since 2011. He will focus in future on his activities at the parallel FilmFestival Cottbus where he has served as head of the programme department since last year.
Buder has worked at the festival in Cottbus in various functions since 1996, most recently as a researcher and curator of the Focus sidebar.
The co-production event is now looking for a successor who would theoretically work in tandem with Buder on the 2014 edition (November 6-7) before taking over full responsibility from 2015, as he told Screen Daily at this week’s Odessa International Film.
In Odessa, he was serving on the jury along with Russian producer Evgeny Gindilis and Warsaw Film Fest...
- 7/15/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
White White World
Directed by Oleg Novkovic
Writen by: Milena Markovic
Serbia, 2010
Trying too hard may be what stunts the otherwise portentous storyline and hefty characterisation in White White World by Serbian director Oleg Novkovic, a fourth feature film well-travelled around European festivals. Staking its bets on oft-employed tropes of Balkanness such as grotesque modes of conflict resolution (bottles smashed on heads, fist fights in dumpsters), feral non-verbalised feelings, and the mandatory array of freakish characters set against a fuzzy backdrop of some national tragedy or other (in this case, hopeless industrial decline and generalised national despondency), the film, although abounding in dramatic energy, fails at invoking sympathy for the larger-than-life protagonists.
And sympathy is what they are all after: each main character is granted a dirge-like singing act lamenting the tragedy of their respective destinies. Wading full-on into Greek tragedy territory, the story centres around a fatal teenage beauty,...
Directed by Oleg Novkovic
Writen by: Milena Markovic
Serbia, 2010
Trying too hard may be what stunts the otherwise portentous storyline and hefty characterisation in White White World by Serbian director Oleg Novkovic, a fourth feature film well-travelled around European festivals. Staking its bets on oft-employed tropes of Balkanness such as grotesque modes of conflict resolution (bottles smashed on heads, fist fights in dumpsters), feral non-verbalised feelings, and the mandatory array of freakish characters set against a fuzzy backdrop of some national tragedy or other (in this case, hopeless industrial decline and generalised national despondency), the film, although abounding in dramatic energy, fails at invoking sympathy for the larger-than-life protagonists.
And sympathy is what they are all after: each main character is granted a dirge-like singing act lamenting the tragedy of their respective destinies. Wading full-on into Greek tragedy territory, the story centres around a fatal teenage beauty,...
- 10/20/2011
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Today, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (Fnc), which will take place between October 12 to 23. Here's the complete line-up of feature films according to the press release we received.
Opening and closing
The 40th edition of the Fnc kicks off on Wednesday, October 12, with Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli (France) at Cinéma Impérial (Centre Sandra & Leo Kolber, Salle Lucie & André Chagnon). This critically-acclaimed second feature by Valérie Donzelli (The Queen of Hearts) tells the love story of Roméo and Juliette who are battling to save their sick child. The director and her producer Edouard Weil will be in attendance.
Ten days later, on Saturday, October 22, Monsieur Lazhar (Quebec/Canada) by Philippe Falardeau will close the Festival. Selected to represent Canada at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lahzar shows the efforts of an Algerian schoolteacher to help his Grade 6 students come to terms with their teacher’s death.
Opening and closing
The 40th edition of the Fnc kicks off on Wednesday, October 12, with Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli (France) at Cinéma Impérial (Centre Sandra & Leo Kolber, Salle Lucie & André Chagnon). This critically-acclaimed second feature by Valérie Donzelli (The Queen of Hearts) tells the love story of Roméo and Juliette who are battling to save their sick child. The director and her producer Edouard Weil will be in attendance.
Ten days later, on Saturday, October 22, Monsieur Lazhar (Quebec/Canada) by Philippe Falardeau will close the Festival. Selected to represent Canada at the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, Monsieur Lahzar shows the efforts of an Algerian schoolteacher to help his Grade 6 students come to terms with their teacher’s death.
- 9/27/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
I will soon post a list of films I have already seen that I highly recommend as well as a list of my most anticipated films screening at this year’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema. For now here is the press release from the festival. Make sure you read carefully because there are a ton of great films to check out.
Montreal, Tuesday September 27, 2011– Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma will be celebrating its 40th edition from October 12 to 23. For the past 40 years, Canada’s oldest film festival has offered film buffs a selection of the year’s most exciting new films — a bold lineup with plenty of whimsical and surprising elements, but one that also turns its lens on social realities and the evolution of film and new technologies. Over the course of this year’s 11-day Festival, audiences of all ages can take in features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries,...
Montreal, Tuesday September 27, 2011– Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma will be celebrating its 40th edition from October 12 to 23. For the past 40 years, Canada’s oldest film festival has offered film buffs a selection of the year’s most exciting new films — a bold lineup with plenty of whimsical and surprising elements, but one that also turns its lens on social realities and the evolution of film and new technologies. Over the course of this year’s 11-day Festival, audiences of all ages can take in features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries,...
- 9/27/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma has announced their line up for the films competing for the Louve d’Or, a prize of $15 000 awarded to the best film. This marks the festivals 40th year and once again the line up is stellar. If you are not familiar with the festival than now is the time to do so. I honestly think it is the best film festival I have ever been to. While Fantasia may be the most fun, the Fnc not only picks the best of Venice, Cannes and Tiff, but they don’t focus on red carpets, celebrities, nor do they overcharge for tickets. Its classy, laid back and more importantly, all about the movies. Here is the first wave of films announced.
Behold the Lamb, John Mcllduff (Royaume-Uni)
Black Blood, Miaoyan Zhang (Chine)
Blue Bird, Gust Van Den Berghe (Belgique)
Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russie)
Les Géants, Bouli Lanners (Belgique)
The Island,...
Behold the Lamb, John Mcllduff (Royaume-Uni)
Black Blood, Miaoyan Zhang (Chine)
Blue Bird, Gust Van Den Berghe (Belgique)
Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russie)
Les Géants, Bouli Lanners (Belgique)
The Island,...
- 9/21/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Films Boutique is a sales agent from Germany with a penchant for international film items. This year they rep a pair of Cannes selected titles in the Directors' Fortnight selected director's cut version of Guilty of Romance from Sion Sono (see pic above) and Valérie Mrejen's En Ville. Among the big titles for art-house lovers they are repping Alexander Sokurov's Faust -- which I guess finally wasn't ready for a Cannes inclusion. Here is their slate: Faust by Alexander Sokurov - Post-Production Guilty Of Romance (Koi No Tsumi) by Sion Sono - Completed Iris In Bloom (En Ville) by Valérie Mrejen - Completed Free Hands (Les Mains Libres) by Brigitte Sy - Completed Intimate Grammar (Hadikduk Hapnimi) by Nir Bergman - Completed Jo For Jonathan by Maxime Giroux - Completed Little Voices (PEQUEÑAS Voces 3D) by Jairo Carrillo - Completed No More Fear (Plus Jamais Peur) by Mourad...
- 5/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Peruvian brothers Daniel and Diego Vega who blasted on the international scene with Octubre (they'll be at New Directors/New Films next) will be returning to Cannes for their second trip in a row as part of the 2011's L’Atelier -- the Cannes initiative where the participants complete financing packages for their films. Previous projects (I'll take 2008 as an example) include Oleg Novkovic's White, White World, Benedek Fliegauf's Womb, Braden King's Here which just preemie at Sundance and Berlin and you have Lou Ye's "Bitch" which is now called Love & Bruises (look for a Main Comp entry at Cannes this year). Along with the Vega brothers, notable names include the Un Certain Regard selected R U There (2010) helmer David Verbeek and Alvaro Brechner who directed Bad Day to Go Fishing (2010). We'll have more on some select names below -- here are the fifteen selected projects who'll...
- 3/10/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Tribeca Film Festival has announced the line up of this years competition categories, including World Narrative Feature, World Documentary Feature, and the brand new Viewpoints which highlights eleven independent features and nine documentaries.
Tribeca Film Festival is one of leading film festivals located in New York City, showcasing many films not screened in any other U.S. film festival along with forty three world premieres and fifty four directorial debuts. Cameron Crowe’s premier of his concert documentary, The Union, will start the festival followed by a performance by Elton John. The rest of the lineup will be announced March 14th, and look out for coverage of the festival in April. Below you can find the complete press release on the lineup.
10th Tribeca Film Festival Announces World Narrative
And Documentary Competition Selections, And New Viewpoints Section
Tribeca Expands Awards Scope
2011 Festival to Present 88 Feature-Length and 61 Short Films April 20 – May...
Tribeca Film Festival is one of leading film festivals located in New York City, showcasing many films not screened in any other U.S. film festival along with forty three world premieres and fifty four directorial debuts. Cameron Crowe’s premier of his concert documentary, The Union, will start the festival followed by a performance by Elton John. The rest of the lineup will be announced March 14th, and look out for coverage of the festival in April. Below you can find the complete press release on the lineup.
10th Tribeca Film Festival Announces World Narrative
And Documentary Competition Selections, And New Viewpoints Section
Tribeca Expands Awards Scope
2011 Festival to Present 88 Feature-Length and 61 Short Films April 20 – May...
- 3/9/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) on Monday announced the first 44 feature films of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival slate, comprising the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections, and one new section: Viewpoints.
In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.
“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.
World Narrative Features
“Angel’s Crest”
Directed by Gaby Dellal
Written by Catherine Trieschmann
(UK,...
In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.
“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.
World Narrative Features
“Angel’s Crest”
Directed by Gaby Dellal
Written by Catherine Trieschmann
(UK,...
- 3/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) on Monday announced the first 44 feature films of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival slate, comprising the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections, and one new section: Viewpoints.
In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.
“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.
World Narrative Features
“Angel’s Crest”
Directed by Gaby Dellal
Written by Catherine Trieschmann
(UK,...
In a record year for submissions, the 2011 film slate was chosen from a field of 5,624 entries. Tff 2011 will include feature films from 32 countries, including 43 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres, seven U.S. Premieres and nine New York premieres.
“It’s our 10th Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Tff executive director Nancy Schafer in a statement. “The festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
A complete list of the films announced Monday follows, with descriptions provided by the festival.
World Narrative Features
“Angel’s Crest”
Directed by Gaby Dellal
Written by Catherine Trieschmann
(UK,...
- 3/7/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival revealed the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections for the 10th annual Tff, which will be held April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.
In addition, Tff organizers unveiled the first edition of the new section — Viewpoints.
Forty-four of the 88 feature-length films that will screen during the fest have been announced. Much more information on each title can be found below.
“It’s our tenth Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Nancy Schafer, Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Festival. “The Festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
So what will screen at Tribeca this year? In part, the following:
World Narrative Feature Competition
· Angels Crest, directed by Gaby Dellal, written by Catherine Trieschmann. (UK, Canada) – World Premiere.
Hollywoodnews.com: The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival revealed the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections for the 10th annual Tff, which will be held April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.
In addition, Tff organizers unveiled the first edition of the new section — Viewpoints.
Forty-four of the 88 feature-length films that will screen during the fest have been announced. Much more information on each title can be found below.
“It’s our tenth Tribeca Film Festival, and in our relatively brief existence we have evolved dramatically,” said Nancy Schafer, Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Festival. “The Festival has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of New York City as well as a globally recognized platform for storytelling.”
So what will screen at Tribeca this year? In part, the following:
World Narrative Feature Competition
· Angels Crest, directed by Gaby Dellal, written by Catherine Trieschmann. (UK, Canada) – World Premiere.
- 3/7/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
And the festival beat marches on… nothing on this list immediately jumps out at me… no titles I recognize. These are just the World Narrative and Documentary competition selections, so, there’ll be more announcements made later. I do see representation from South Africa, Egypt and Rwanda. As I always do, I’ll be taking a closer look at the lineup for any titles worth profiling on this website. The festival runs from April 20th to May 1st. It’s in my backyard, so you know I’ll be covering it!
For now, here’s the full press release:
New York, NY [March 7, 2011] – The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, today announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections and the first edition of the new section—Viewpoints. Forty-three of the 87 feature-length films were announced. The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.
For now, here’s the full press release:
New York, NY [March 7, 2011] – The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express®, today announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film selections and the first edition of the new section—Viewpoints. Forty-three of the 87 feature-length films were announced. The 10th edition of the Festival will take place from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan.
- 3/7/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The Tribeca Film Festival announced selections for its World Narrative, World Documentary, and Viewpoints competitions at its 10th annual event, running from April 20 to May 1 in New York. Eighty-eight features (such as Angels Crest, with Jeremy Piven) and 61 short films from 32 different countries were selected from more than 5,600 submissions to screen at the festival. “In programming the Festival this year we had to make some incredibly difficult decisions, but we are excited about the quality, ingenuity, risk-taking and diversity of this year’s program,” David Kwok, Director of Programming, said in a statement. “We are particularly proud that we have...
- 3/7/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Getty Robert DeNiro
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, which will run from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan, has announced the films that will play in this year’s World Narrative and Documentary Competition film categories, which are both competition sections. The also named the films that will will play in its new, out-of-competition section “Viewpoints.”
Now in its tenth year, this year’s festival features movies from 32 different counties and 99 different filmmakers, who were selected from a pool of 5,624 entries.
The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, which will run from April 20 to May 1 in lower Manhattan, has announced the films that will play in this year’s World Narrative and Documentary Competition film categories, which are both competition sections. The also named the films that will will play in its new, out-of-competition section “Viewpoints.”
Now in its tenth year, this year’s festival features movies from 32 different counties and 99 different filmmakers, who were selected from a pool of 5,624 entries.
- 3/7/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The film series “Cinema Belgrade” continued this weekend with New York premiere’s of Oleg Novkovic’s documentary Miner’s Opera (Rudarska opera)and his feature Tomorrow Morning (Sutra ujutru). Both of bleak backgrounds, grey skies and communist era high rises, these films nevertheless were infused with moments of surprising beauty that surfaced amidst the scenarios of broken landscapes and broken souls.Miner’s Operafeatures writer and director Milena Markovic (who wrote Tomorrow Morning) traveling to the mining town of Bor, where the gaping hole that once...
- 10/19/2010
- by Amberleigh Shields, NY Foreign Film Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
Rome -- Li Hongqi 's "Han Jia" (Winter Vacation), a coming-of-age story set it small town China, won the Locarno Film Festival's Golden Leopard prize Saturday during a full but drizzly ceremony at the Piazza Grande. It is the second consecutive year that a film from a Chinese director took home the festival's top prize.
Among the festival's other top prizes: "Morgen," a border drama set on the boundary between Romania and Hungary from Marian Crisan, won a Special Jury Prize, while Denis Cote was given the Prize of the City and Region of Locarno for Best Director for the Canadian thriller "Curling." Emmanuel Bilodeau, the male lead in "Curling" was given the prize for best actor, while Jasna Duricic won the Best Actress honor for her work in "Beli Belisvet" (White White World) from Serbian director Oleg Novkovic.
The top prize carries an award of 90,000 Swiss francs ($85,000), while the...
Among the festival's other top prizes: "Morgen," a border drama set on the boundary between Romania and Hungary from Marian Crisan, won a Special Jury Prize, while Denis Cote was given the Prize of the City and Region of Locarno for Best Director for the Canadian thriller "Curling." Emmanuel Bilodeau, the male lead in "Curling" was given the prize for best actor, while Jasna Duricic won the Best Actress honor for her work in "Beli Belisvet" (White White World) from Serbian director Oleg Novkovic.
The top prize carries an award of 90,000 Swiss francs ($85,000), while the...
- 8/14/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rome -- The World Premiere of Christopher Honore's "Man at Bath", and the international premieres of "Karamay," a 356-minute political documentary from Chinese director Xu Xin and Aaron Katz's mystery story "Cold Weather" will be among the highlights of the 20-film main competition at the 63rd edition of the Locarno Film Festival, organizers said Wednesday.
Wednesday's announcement also revealed the lineup for the festival's famous Piazza Grande venue, which will include the European premiere of Jay and Mark Duplass' comedy "Cyrus" -- John C. Reilly, the film's star, will be on hand to receive a special tribute -- Gareth Edwards' science fiction drama "Monsters," and "Gadkii Utenok" (The Ugly Duckling) from first-time Russian director Garri Bardine.
The picturesque Piazza Grande, which seats more than 8,000, is the largest outdoor film venue in Europe.
Among previously announced films is "La Zombie" from the provocative Bruce Labruce, which will screen in competition,...
Wednesday's announcement also revealed the lineup for the festival's famous Piazza Grande venue, which will include the European premiere of Jay and Mark Duplass' comedy "Cyrus" -- John C. Reilly, the film's star, will be on hand to receive a special tribute -- Gareth Edwards' science fiction drama "Monsters," and "Gadkii Utenok" (The Ugly Duckling) from first-time Russian director Garri Bardine.
The picturesque Piazza Grande, which seats more than 8,000, is the largest outdoor film venue in Europe.
Among previously announced films is "La Zombie" from the provocative Bruce Labruce, which will screen in competition,...
- 7/14/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New logo. New website. New artistic director. Olivier Pere exited to become the head honcho at Locarno, so the Director's Fortnight, also known as La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, will be Frederic Boyer's baby this year. The mandate will remain the same, but will the tastes differ? Pere's legacy includes some of my favorites over the past decade such as Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest... - New logo. New website. New artistic director. Olivier Pere exited to become the head honcho at Locarno, so the Director's Fortnight, also known as La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, will be Frederic Boyer's baby this year. The mandate will remain the same, but will the tastes differ? Pere's legacy includes some of my favorites over the past decade such as Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest, Anton Corbijn's Control, Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop, Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero,...
- 3/29/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
- The very young, and so far, extremely successful Cannes Atelier program (now in its 4th year) has announced the 15 projects as part of the 2008 curriculum that basically invites directors and their producers to pitch their projects, find financing and/or find distribution to world investors in film the film festival dates. This year's batch includes plenty of first time film projects from short film directors who've canvased the festival circuit but the list also two familiar names with the 6th film project from Lou Ye's (Summer Palace) and the sophomore feature (Lucky Life) from Lee Isaac Chung - perhaps 2007's best new director with Munyurangabo (Liberation Day) making waves on the circuit. Here are the selected projects: Australia – Cure For Serpents by Ben Hackworth (2nd feature film)China – Bitch by Lou Ye (6th feature film)Colombia – The Stoplight Society by Ruben Mendoza (1st feature film)Estonia – One More Croissant
- 3/31/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes has selected 15 projects from 14 countries for the fourth installment of the Cinefondation's Atelier program, organizers said Monday.
Launched in 2005, the Atelier was created to aid both established directors and rising-star filmmakers with the financing and completion of their upcoming projects. The Cinefondation's Atelier -- or "workshop" in English -- allows the selected filmmakers to spend eight days networking at the world's biggest international film event of the year.
From May 16-23, the chosen directors and their respective producers will schmooze along the Croisette and meet with market attendees.
This year's eclectic mix of international filmmakers include U.S. first-time feature helmer Braden King ("Here"), Lee Isaac Chung ("Lucky Life") and Arvin Chen (Taiwanese co-production "First Page Taipei").
Other first-time helmers chosen include French director Lea Fehner ("Qu'un seul tienne, et les autres suivront"), Colombia's Ruben Mendoza ("The Stoplight Society"), Israeli Nadav Lapid ("The Policeman"), Romanians Razvan Radulescu and Melissa De Raaf ("First of All, Felicia"), Somali helmer Abdi Ismael Jama ("Queleh") and Vietnam's Phang Dang Di ("Bi, Don't Be Afraid").
More experienced filmmakers include China's Lou Ye, selected for his sixth feature film, "Bitch"; Hungarian Benedek Fliegauf, on hand with his third feature, "Womb"; and Oleg Novkovic, who brings his fourth effort, "White, White World". Second-time helmers are Uruguay's Juan Pittaluga, with "Punta del Este", and Estonian Ilmar Raag, with "One More Croissant".
Launched in 2005, the Atelier was created to aid both established directors and rising-star filmmakers with the financing and completion of their upcoming projects. The Cinefondation's Atelier -- or "workshop" in English -- allows the selected filmmakers to spend eight days networking at the world's biggest international film event of the year.
From May 16-23, the chosen directors and their respective producers will schmooze along the Croisette and meet with market attendees.
This year's eclectic mix of international filmmakers include U.S. first-time feature helmer Braden King ("Here"), Lee Isaac Chung ("Lucky Life") and Arvin Chen (Taiwanese co-production "First Page Taipei").
Other first-time helmers chosen include French director Lea Fehner ("Qu'un seul tienne, et les autres suivront"), Colombia's Ruben Mendoza ("The Stoplight Society"), Israeli Nadav Lapid ("The Policeman"), Romanians Razvan Radulescu and Melissa De Raaf ("First of All, Felicia"), Somali helmer Abdi Ismael Jama ("Queleh") and Vietnam's Phang Dang Di ("Bi, Don't Be Afraid").
More experienced filmmakers include China's Lou Ye, selected for his sixth feature film, "Bitch"; Hungarian Benedek Fliegauf, on hand with his third feature, "Womb"; and Oleg Novkovic, who brings his fourth effort, "White, White World". Second-time helmers are Uruguay's Juan Pittaluga, with "Punta del Este", and Estonian Ilmar Raag, with "One More Croissant".
- 3/31/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Returning to his childhood home in Belgrade after a dozen years of living abroad, a young man discovers nothing has changed -- and everything has changed -- in Oleg Novkovic's quietly reflective and keenly perceptive Tomorrow Morning (Sutra Ujutru).
Screened at the recent Palm Springs International Film Festival, Serbia's foreign-language Oscar submission serves as a notable first screenplay for acclaimed poet and playwright Milena Markovic, and it knows no geographical boundaries when it comes to its appraisal of the complex bonds of friendship and family.
After spending the past 12 years of his life living and working in Canada, Nele (Uliks Fehmiu) has come back home for his wedding, but what was supposed to be a joyful reunion with his parents and his old buddies gets considerably more complicated as the prodigal son realizes he'd left a lot of emotional baggage behind.
The bulk of it belongs to Sasha (Nada Sargin), his old girlfriend who still carries a formidable torch when she's not hoisting too many drinks. It turns out those feelings remain quite mutual, which puts a serious damper on Nele's nuptials.
Novkovic mines beautifully etched performances from his ensemble, especially from moody Sargin and Radmila Tomovic as Ceca, another of Nele's former flames (our boy got around), who eventually settled for amiable but immature Bure (Ljubomir Bandovic).
Like the healing country in which they live, Tomorrow Morning shows a group of lives in transition. But underneath the unspoken resentments stemming from the pang of missed opportunities, there's still a glint of optimism lurking in that bleak landscape.
Returning to his childhood home in Belgrade after a dozen years of living abroad, a young man discovers nothing has changed -- and everything has changed -- in Oleg Novkovic's quietly reflective and keenly perceptive Tomorrow Morning (Sutra Ujutru).
Screened at the recent Palm Springs International Film Festival, Serbia's foreign-language Oscar submission serves as a notable first screenplay for acclaimed poet and playwright Milena Markovic, and it knows no geographical boundaries when it comes to its appraisal of the complex bonds of friendship and family.
After spending the past 12 years of his life living and working in Canada, Nele (Uliks Fehmiu) has come back home for his wedding, but what was supposed to be a joyful reunion with his parents and his old buddies gets considerably more complicated as the prodigal son realizes he'd left a lot of emotional baggage behind.
The bulk of it belongs to Sasha (Nada Sargin), his old girlfriend who still carries a formidable torch when she's not hoisting too many drinks. It turns out those feelings remain quite mutual, which puts a serious damper on Nele's nuptials.
Novkovic mines beautifully etched performances from his ensemble, especially from moody Sargin and Radmila Tomovic as Ceca, another of Nele's former flames (our boy got around), who eventually settled for amiable but immature Bure (Ljubomir Bandovic).
Like the healing country in which they live, Tomorrow Morning shows a group of lives in transition. But underneath the unspoken resentments stemming from the pang of missed opportunities, there's still a glint of optimism lurking in that bleak landscape.
- 1/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Ioncinema.com presents: Best of Fests Tromsø International Film Festival When: January 16th to 21st, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 16, 2007'); Where: Location: Tromsø, NorwayOfficial Website: http://www.tiff.no/What: Tiff is a popular film festival for our audience, and at the same time an important meeting point for Norwegian and international film industry. TIFF07 will be Tromsø's 17th international film festival. Tromsø International Film Festival had in 2006 a total admission of 44 804. This makes Tiff Norway' largest festival.Accredited: No Film Line Up:Opening NightSPANDEXMAN - Bobbie Peers, 2007Winterland - Hisham Zaman, 2006Closing NightONCE In A Lifetime - John Dower, Paul Crowder, 2005Competition ProgramBORDERPOST - Rajko Grlic , 2006Born And Bred - Pablo Trapero , 2006Chronicle Of An Escape - Isreal Adrián Caetano, 2006Colossal Youth - Pedro Costa, 2006Family Ties - Kim Tae-Yong, 2006Glue - Alexis Dos Santos, 2005Gypo - Jan Dunn, 2005Longing - Valeska Grisebach, 2006Lucy - Henner Winckler, 2006Requiem -
- 1/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Cottbus, Germany -- Serbian director Oleg Novkovic scored a hat trick at the closing ceremony Saturday of the 16th Cottbus Festival of East European Cinema as his gritty social drama "Tomorrow Morning" (Sutra Ujutru) took the main $19,000 prize for best film, the Fipresci critics nod and a new distribution support prize worth $13,000.
The film -- Serbia's official foreign language nomination for the 79th Academy Awards -- tells the story of a Serbian man who returns to Belgrade after the civil wars of the 1990s from self-imposed exile in Canada to marry a local woman.
Novkovic said it was a case of third time lucky -- the film was his third feature and it was the third time he had been to the festival.
"I'm beginning to feel as if I am part of Cottbus," he said to laughter from guests at the city's Stadthalle.
Romanian director Radu Muntean's acclaimed story...
The film -- Serbia's official foreign language nomination for the 79th Academy Awards -- tells the story of a Serbian man who returns to Belgrade after the civil wars of the 1990s from self-imposed exile in Canada to marry a local woman.
Novkovic said it was a case of third time lucky -- the film was his third feature and it was the third time he had been to the festival.
"I'm beginning to feel as if I am part of Cottbus," he said to laughter from guests at the city's Stadthalle.
Romanian director Radu Muntean's acclaimed story...
- 11/21/2006
- by By Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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